Entity Framework 5 - DbContext Has Changes?

Question

I'm trying to find a way to determine of any changes have been made to a database context (DbContext). Note: I'm using Visual Studio 2012 with Entity Framework 5 on a Windows 7, 64-bit box.

Back when I used to use ObjectContext instead of DbContext, I could do something like:

public partial class MyObjectContext
{
    public Boolean HasUnsavedChanges()
    {
        return (this.ObjectStateManager.GetObjectStateEntries(EntityState.Added | EntityState.Modified | EntityState.Deleted).Any());
    }
}

Now that I'm using DbContext, I tried to do this:

public partial class MyDbContext
{
    public ObjectContext ObjectContext()
    {
        return (this as IObjectContextAdapter).ObjectContext;
    }

    public Boolean HasUnsavedChanges()
    {
        return (this.ObjectContext().ObjectStateManager.GetObjectStateEntries(EntityState.Added | EntityState.Modified | EntityState.Deleted).Any());
    }
}

The problem that I'm having is that the method "HasUnsavedChanges()" always return "false" even when I know for a fact that the context has been changed. Does anyone have any ideas as to what I'm doing wrong?

Entity Framework 5 - DbContext Has Changes?

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